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Ebba Andersson was washed in the 20-kilometer race last weekend in Holmenkollen.
It still bothers her very much – especially considering what happened this week in Lahti.
She gets crazy when she sees what happened during the men’s sprint.
– If our sport is to start to be transformed become an assessment sport, it has gone too far, she tells Expressen.
She left Trondheim with three World Cup gold and again became the championship’s great queen, just like in Planica 2023. Ebba Andersson27, has every reason to be satisfied with the season finale. But right now she is just fleeing.
The situation that makes Ebba cursed
The reason is that she was washed last weekend in Holmenkollen, in the 20-kilometer race that she thought she came third in. The jury had the opinion that she took too many skate cuts on part of the track where it was not allowed. Ebba Andersson and her team have submitted two protests, both of which have been rejected.
– Then you get no less cursed when you saw how they acted around the situation here last Friday. That such a situation is passed through without anyone being warned – while being hard with me, she tells Expressen this weekend.
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The event she talks about is the men’s sprint finals in Lahti that went on Friday night. During the closing World Cup weekend, an incident occurred that can be called into question. The Italian Federico Pellegrino was struck with the Swiss Valerio Grond About third place and he dropped his opponent. Despite Swiss protests, Pellegrino had to retain his pallet.
Feeling unfairly treated
Ebba Andersson got very angry when she witnessed the incident and discovered that there was no aftermath.
– The next day we started discussing what happened in that sprint in the bus up to the stadium and I asked the others how it ended, if he was washed? But was told that nothing happened, she says, and tells how she felt then:
– That everything was weaved all again. That I started burning inboard. That I felt unfairly treated. That’s exactly what annoys me. How different hard jury is with different active and different situations.
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She gets asked if she thinks she is punished extra hard because she is a big star who represents a big ski nation and she does not deny that she thinks it may be so. In any case, she cannot exclude it. She concludes by saying that the international ski association is really bad if they are to start judging the different events in different ways and not stick to clear frameworks.
– If our sport is to start to be transformed become an assessment sport, it has gone too far, she says.
We suffer with you and keep your back, Ebba. You are a big star who has really proven that you are the best when it comes to. Release the World Cup finishes and enjoy your World Cup medals. You are so worth a little vacation now.
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